From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 639-640.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


JOHN B. WALKINSHAW

John B. Walkinshaw, M. D., of Wellsburg, a physician and surgeon of 
notable talent and thorough education, was born in Westmoreland 
county, Penn., September 22, 1856.  Dr. Walkinshaw is a son of James 
Walkinshaw, now a minister of the Presbyterian church at Aledo, Ill., 
of high culture, and brilliant and successful in his calling.  This 
gentleman was engaged in boyhood on the Pennsylvania canal, 
subsequently taught in an academy at Turtle Creek, and received his 
education at Elder's Ridge academy and at Jefferson college.  His 
theological studies he pursued at the United Presbyterian Theological 
seminary at Allegheny, Penn.  He was in the service of the Union for 
three years as chaplain during the civil war, and was subsequently 
associated with the Christian commission.  Rev. Mr. Walkinshaw is a 
native of Pennsylvania, of German descent as was also his wife, whose 
maiden name was Nancy Brown.  The latter died in 1873, from an over-
dose of morphine administered by a physician for the relief of 
neuralgia, with which she was suffering.  The subject of this sketch 
is the oldest of the five children of these parents, three of whom 
survive.  Dr. Walkinshaw's first employment, for his own maintenance, 
was as a teacher in the public schools of Pennsylvania. Subsequently,
he studied and was graduated at Martinsburg academy in Knox county,
Ohio, afterward attending Gambier and W. & J. colleges. Having
determined to pursue the profession of medicine he began reading in
1879 with Dr. H. L. Snodgrass, at Buffalo Penn., and afterward entered
the medical department of the Western Reserve college at Cleveland,
Ohio, where he was graduated in February, 1883. At once he began the
practice at Wellsburg, where he is now considered as a leader in his
profession, among the young practitioners, and is popular as a citizen.
He holds the position of physician for the county, and has for four
years held the office of coroner.  With a firm grasp of the fundamentals
of his profession, he keeps abreast of advanced thought, by extensive
reading and is an active member of the State Medical society and of the
American Medical association.  Politically he is a democrat, and the church 
connection of himself and wife is with the Presbyterian church of 
Wellsburg.  Fraternally he is a member of the Wellsburg lodge, No. 2, 
F. & A. M., of which he has served as W. M.; of Wheeling Union 
chapter, R. A. M.; of Wheeling commandery, No. 1, K. T., and he is 
past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. The doctor was married 
December 23, 1887, to Anna M. Liggette, of Washington county, Penn. 


(Linda Fluharty)